Badge in Azure

The face on the Angel of Fear’s abdomen howled and the faces on the long knife followed. That time around, the tens of thousands of pests nearby followed their lead and began to screech as well.

Then, the Angel of Fear flipped her long knife and swung back at the divine tree magic tower once again. Most double-edged knives had jagged edges on one side, but the Angel of Fear’s knife did not. When she swung her sword, the beam of light from the knife carried terrifying aura and struck Saleen’s magic tower.

Saleen’s resistance merely delayed the Angel of Fear by a few seconds.

To Saleen, a few seconds were a long time, but in a battle, they passed by in the blink of an eye. The beam of light from the knife unleashed an explosion that almost resulted in cracks in the nearby waters.

Every inch of seawater within ten miles was no longer transparent. Instead, it had been turned into a three-dimensional magic array through a method that Saleen had never seen before. There were tens of thousands of soul shards contained within the tens of thousands of pests. The soul shards contained the memories of their previous lives. When the face on Angel of Fear’s abdomen howled, all the soul shards became excited and produced a sense of fear that could not be suppressed.

The Angel of Fear absorbed the power of fear and integrated them into her attack.

Oohh oohh…

There was a gentle cooing from within the divine tree magic tower. A green light flashed gently for an instant and everything quietened down once again. The beam of light from the Angel of Fear’s long knife vanished as it was easily eliminated by the divine tree magic tower.

Saleen had just witnessed a gigantic magic attack being vanquished by the divine tree magic tower. He felt strange. If he possessed similar power that allowed him to leave behind items that could still unleash such power thousands of years after he had fallen, would he be more willing to die?

It was said that Gods could live forever, but all humans must die, no matter how powerful they might be.

Within the magic tower, Saleen did not even sense the mental attack harnessed within the Angel of Fear’s attack. If he had not been in the magic tower, even before the beam of light from the light knife had befallen on him, his soul already would have been shredded into pieces and absorbed by the Angel of Fear.

The Angel of Fear stopped her actions unexpectedly. She rested her long knife on her shoulders and began to circle the divine tree magic tower.

It was something left behind by a high-level God. Her fear attack was completely ineffective so that meant that the materials used to build the equipment must at least be grade-16 or above. The equipment of Gods was different from those of humans. If the materials of this equipment were grade-16 or above, then the God… the God must at least be grade-18!

“Damn it. It’s not like I’m unable to break through an equipment made from such high-level materials. There are still too many loopholes in this equipment after all, but it will be risky.”

The face on the Angel of Fear’s abdomen was also staring at the divine tree magic tower. It wanted to unleash an attack but did not dare to do so. It was vaguely aware of the danger posed by the magic tower when the Angel of Fear’s Blade of Fear was completely ineffective against it.

In the divine tree magic tower, Nailisi said to Saleen, “Master, I want the Angel of Fear’s long knife!”

“For what?” Saleen asked casually.

“In my devil-form, the length of the knife can serve as a dagger. My devil-form does not possess any good weapons and my equipment is often damaged. If not for the lack of good equipment, I would not have been injured at Sanlian City.”

“As long as we finish off this Angel of Fear, you can have anything you want.” Saleen replied coolly as his eyes stayed glued on the Angel of Fear.

“Master, you don’t intend to subdue her?” Nailisi could sense what Saleen was thinking and asked in disbelief.

“Tough. Even if I do subdue her, the price to pay will be too high. I think, if I can’t subdue her, then I may as well dismantle her and split her up for Nicholas and the winged skeleton. Of course, you can have her weapon.”

Nailisi jammed her long lance onto the ground in fury. Master only intended to give her a knife! With the Angel of Fear, Nailisi’s Twelve Notes of Purgatory would be even closer to restoration. Was she not the one that Master favored the most? “Why must it be about the winged skeleton all the time? Even Nicholas is in the picture now!”

“Nailisi, are you unhappy?” There was a strange expression on Saleen’s face.

“Hmm, extremely.”

“Why?”

“No particular reason…but the Angel of Fear is mine! Mine!”

“Do you dislike Soldier that much?”

“No, but I need to restore my Twelve Notes of Purgatory as soon as possible!”

“The Twelve Notes of Purgatory is only a semi-Godly item even after it has been completely restored. I have thought about it. These items were hardly considered as ‘semi-Godly items’ by the humans in the past. To put it bluntly, after it has been completely restored, the Twelve Notes of Purgatory will just be a grade-10 equipment. Do you think it is comparable to my divine tree magic tower?”

“No.” Nailisi pouted. There were tears in her eyes.

“There are two broken souls in the body of the Angel of Fear. I can see them. One of them will be given to Soldier, so that he can advance. The other will be given to Nicholas, so that he can possess a complete soul bead and eliminate the issue with his original soul bead. This is the only way Nicholas will choose to follow me wholeheartedly, otherwise something will crop up sooner or later.”

Saleen did not mention anything about Fycro. The soul bead was refined by Fycro and Saleen did not believe that Fycro would not tinker with it. If they managed to find Nicholas on their way back from the Imperial City of the Abyss, Saleen decided that he would completely destroy the original soul bead, so whatever Fycro might have done to Nicholas would become ineffective.

In any case, all that was not included in his agreement with Fycro.

Fycro demanded an interdimensional space and for the Holy See to be split apart while Saleen himself needed to eliminate the Holy See’s presence on that dimension. It would save Saleen a lot of trouble if Fycro really left with all his disciples, but if Fycro refused to leave and wanted to continue to spread his faith, Saleen would have to think of a way to deal with the grade-10 Holy Master.

Fycro was even more terrifying than a grade-12 Angel of Fear. He had already turned his back on the Lord of Glory, yet he had not fallen and still continued to enjoy the blessings of his God.

Such ability only proved that Fycro possessed a soul that was powerful enough to go against the millions of disciples of the Lord of Glory on the Myers Mainland, including Pope Theisio.

Nailisi thought about it carefully and decided to stop crying. She said, “Master, I was wrong.”

“Then think of a way to kill this creature. I feel uneasy looking at her. The divine tree magic tower was not refined completely and perfectly. The grade-12 monster will definitely be able to find its loopholes eventually.”

Nailisi’s heart turned cold. The divine tree magic tower might look powerful and imposing, but even Nailisi herself could already spot a few problems. The materials of the four divine trees were not integrated together. Instead, they were only connected together by the core of Sky City. While the core should be strong enough that the Angel of Fear would not be able to destroy it, the problem was that there was no need to. She only needed to seek out the gaps within the four divine trees.

It was difficult to build and easy to destroy. Refining a divine tree magic tower required a significant amount of wealth, resources, and time to constantly repair it. Destroying it would only take an instant.

“Rossen, what do you think?” Saleen asked the water puppet.

“Crystal finger will not be able to take her down. There is nothing I can do.” Rossen stared at the Angel of Fear outside the magic tower and answered helplessly.

“You mean you don’t have a chance to do anything. Crystal finger needs to be unleashed at a very close distance, but the attacking range of the Angel of Fear was as far as a mile. It is not necessarily true that you don’t have a chance. Nailisi’s long lance can lock on to the target and buy you a few frames of time.”

“My Lord…”

“One hit will do, just so that she is aware of the threat. We will still need to count on Nailisi eventually,” Saleen said.

“Alright, my Lord. When do we strike?”

“Strike at the moment when the magic tower is broken apart.” Saleen continued, “I will boost you with a Frost and Snow magic pattern, a Chunlin spell, and Crystal Guardian. You have less than half a second to attack. Although the Angel of Fear does not attack at a high frequency, the after-effects of each attack are too powerful. Once she uses a technique, we will not have the chance to strike.”

“I understand. My Lord, I will get ready now.” With that, the water puppet wore Rafael’s crystal ring on his left hand and sat down to get himself into the correct state. As an elemental creature, he did not require any meditation techniques.

“Fallen human, do you think you can escape my knife just by borrowing the power of the Gods?” The Angel of Fear finally spoke. She was speaking in the ancient Myers language and the accent was heavy.

From within the magic tower, Saleen heard the sounds that had been processed by the magic tower. He adjusted his magic robe before standing up and replying to the Angel of Fear, “You are just a monster. A pest. No matter how high your grade may be, you will be exterminated sooner or later. Compared to the Gods, you don’t even have the right to be the enemy of humans.”

“I don’t have the right?” Angel of Fear stopped in her tracks. She faced the divine tree magic tower, with an expression of ridicule on her face.

“That is just something pieced together at the last minute. It almost gave me a scare. Now, I will help you understand the power of fear!” With that, the Angel of Fear raised her long knife and moved quite a distance. The face on her abdomen opened its mouth and produced a chain of complicated and strange melodies.

The souls of hundreds of races had been devoured by the Angel of Fear and the huge mouth was producing thousands of languages. Saleen only understood less than one percent of them.

There was no need for Saleen to understand them because all of them expressed a single common emotion, which was fear.

Saleen’s head was so painful that he immediately cut off the link between the magic tower and outside. He could not resist the mysterious attack even with his mental strength, which had been put through so much training by his clan badge.

In that instant when the face produced the attack of fear, Saleen suddenly recalled his past when he could die from hunger any moment and even had to fight for scraps with wild dogs. It was Saleen’s childhood that gave him the most pain.